As the saying goes, "a woman can tell if there is one at home by looking at a footman's hand." What are her hands and feet looking at? Does this make sense?

In daily life, some ancient people are very observant and can infer the deep meaning behind them through some details. For these small details, they summed up many proverbs.

For example, the phrase "a woman can tell if there is one at home by looking at the hand of a footman" is widely circulated.

However, some friends don't know what this sentence means. What is the reason? In this article, the author will talk about it in detail, and everyone will have an answer after reading it.

As the saying goes, "a woman can tell if she has a home by looking at a footman's hand." It is easy to understand from the literal meaning. A look at a woman's feet and a man's hands will tell whether their family is rich or not.

Why can hands and feet reflect family conditions? What is the moral behind it?

Let me explain "women watch their feet" first, mainly from two aspects:

First, shoes have been a necessity for everyone since ancient times. The shoes on the feet can indirectly reflect the family conditions of the owner, especially the girls who love beauty.

If you play it now, it may be difficult for everyone to distinguish. After all, everyone's shoes are clean and tidy without holes, but if they were put in ancient times, the difference would be great.

In the past, for girls from poor families, most of them wore coarse cloth shoes, and there was only one pair of shoes all year round, with holes or patches on them.

The shoes worn by rich people are easy to tell. Most of the shoes are cut from precious fabrics, and when it is cold in winter, the inside of the shoes will be thickened.

Therefore, in ancient times, you can see whether the person opposite is rich or not without looking up, just look at the shoes on your feet.

Second, look at the size of the feet.

I think everyone has heard of the word "three-inch golden lotus". Small feet were very popular in ancient times. The smaller the feet, the more delicate a woman can be.

In fact, in people's eyes now, this is not a normal aesthetic, but because people's excessive admiration at that time led to this bad habit.

Noble women will try their best to make their feet smaller in order to be sought after by their sons.

When I was young, I wrapped a piece of white cloth on my feet. Except for my thumb, the remaining four toes will bend hard and gather to the center of the foot, eventually creating a pair of small feet.

However, the consequences of this practice are also easy to know. This violent method of making feet smaller may lead to broken toes and even inability to walk in severe cases.

However, the aristocratic ladies don't care about this problem at all. They have to live in tight clothes since childhood, and they don't even have to walk by themselves.

But if they are poor women, they have to do a lot of hard work since childhood. If you are forced to wrap your feet, your family will lose their labor force, so parents will not do this.

Therefore, the poorer the family, the bigger the daughter's feet.

Therefore, in ancient times, it was only necessary to look at the size of a woman's feet to judge whether her family was rich or not.

After "women look at their feet", let's explain the meaning of "men look at their hands".

Also from two aspects to explain:

First look at the roughness of the hand.

In ancient times, farming by men and weaving by women was a common way of life. Men mainly make a living by farming and hunting. If a man's hands are rough, it means that he has done more work. Such a hard-working person, family conditions will not be bad.

On the contrary, if a man's hands are white and tender without cocoons, it means that he may be a lazy man.

So many women in ancient times looked at the man's hand when dating. The rougher the hands, the more they like them. If the other person's hands are flawless, then everyone will stay away.

Over time, "rough hands" has become one of the criteria for women to choose "xianggong".

Second, look at the size of the hand.

It is often said that money can only be caught with a big hand, and the bigger a person's hand, the stronger his ability to make money.

But many people don't understand why this sentence is. In fact, it is necessary to combine the ancient life background.

In an era dominated by farming, if a person's hands are big, he must have great size and strength and occupy a certain advantage in his work.

If the hand is too small, then there is no advantage in the work, even worse than a woman with great strength, and naturally she can't bear the social responsibility that men should bear in that era.

Therefore, big hands have become one of the conditions for working neatly, and naturally it has become one of the standards for family prosperity.

Speaking of which, I think everyone understands the specific meaning of the sentence "A woman can tell if there is anything at home by looking at the hand of a footman". But for this statement, it mainly stems from the background of the times at that time. With the progress of the times, it may not be suitable for our present life.

Now everyone advocates equality between men and women, and making money is not just about brute force. You can no longer judge the quality of family conditions by looking at your hands and feet. Therefore, the phrase "a woman can tell whether she has a family by looking at a footman's hand" has gradually been forgotten by people.

What do you think of this?